Lab Monkey Left in Cage, Boiled Alive

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An inspection report from the United States Department of Agriculture has revealed that, back in July, New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb accidentally killed a crab-eating macaque monkey when it was left locked in its cage, which was run through the wash cycle.

According to NJ.com, the USDA’s inspection report found that the following occurred on July 1 at Bristol-Myers’ facility in Pennington, in central New Jersey:

The dirty cage was moved to the wash room for sanitizing and submerged in near-boiling water. When the cage was lifted from the wash, a Bristol-Myers employee discovered the dead monkey on the floor, the report said.

Jennifer Fron-Mauer, a spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers, describes the monkey’s death as “unfortunate” and says that the company “immediately began an internal investigation” and informed the USDA. “Our company takes great care that the strict policies and procedures regarding the safe handling of our animals — which are designed to prevent these types of incidents from occurring–take place at all of our facilities,” she emphasized.

Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) has filed a complaint against Bristol-Myers with the USDA and called for “additional citations and punitive action, including a fine.” As SAEN executive director Michael Budkie says:

“Horrible acts of negligence like this, which literally boiled a monkey alive, must be severely penalized.”

Joy L, i'm not sure if Jewish folks would appreciate you comparing the plight of a lab monkey to the holocaust.
Actually, blacks, gays, mentally ill people, and more all suffered during the holocaust. you offended more than a whole group of people with your disproportionate comparison, congratulations!

I must be pretty dense, coz I have some questions I can't answer. HOW, can a cage be lifted and placed into the "wash room" without someone noticing an animal inside. Even if the monkey was asleep on the floor of the cage, you couldn't move the cage without noticing a "lump" on the cage floor. IF the monkey was asleep, it would WAKE UP the INSTANT the cage was touched. If it was unconscious it should have been in a completely DIFFERENT AREA. Caged monkeys are RARELY QUIET, so were ALL the employees working there TOTALLY DEAF? If you "move or lift" a cage with a monkey inside, the monkey gets agitated/excited and moves around (usually making sounds of some sort as well) so WHY did nobody SEE movement??
Last but NOT least, WHY were monkeys (and any OTHER animal being used for EXPERIMENTATION ANYWAY?????????? These "scientists, NEED to DROP DEAD!

Seriously? How much are these monsters being paid? These lazy SOBs can't even be bothered to check the contents of a cage before they wash it? Really? Take their jobs away & give those jobs to people with a brain!!!